Does anyone in Canada remember this doctor?
He was sometimes called in as a specialist for JW babies who needed surgery back in the 70s. He was Department Head at the Children's Hospital at the University of Manitoba. The same hospital that Dr. Bruce Chown did his work on exchange transfusions for babies back in the 50s and 60s.
Victor Chernick, renowned Winnipeg pediatrician, accused of sexually abusing his children
Retired Winnipeg pediatrician Victor Chernick, a professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba and an internationally-recognized scholar, is being accused of sexually abusing two of his own children hundreds of times.
Chernick, 79, is a former chief pediatrician at Winnipeg's Children's Hospital, and he was a professor and chair of the pediatrics department at the University of Manitoba where he began teaching in 1966. He received many honours for his medical research, including the Queen Elizabeth Scientist Award for medical research in 1967.